Improvement in boots and shoes



UNITED 4STATES GEORGE W. WALKER, OE LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOVOT'S AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 93,846, dated August 174, 1869.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be ift-known that I, GEORGE W. VVALKEE, of Lowell, in the countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts7 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, iu which I have shown a perspective view of the outer sole, B, and inner sole, C, of a boot or shoe with 4my improvement applied thereto.

This invention consists in the employment and use of one or more thicknesses of textile fabric on the inner surface of the leather-board inner sole of a sewed'boot or shoe, confined or secured by sewing or stitching thread, which passes through the textile fabric, the leatherboard inner sole, the vamp or upper leather, and"theouter sole.v The textile fabric prevents the stitches drawing or cutting through the leather'- board inner sole, and greatly strengthens the boot or shoe-andrenders it much more durable and serviceable, without materially increasing the cost of the same.

In one of the ordinary modes of making sewed boots and shoes, an inner sole of leatherboard or leather pasteboard is used. This leather-board is composed of ground or pulverized leather, generally the chips or fragments made in cutting shoe-stock. This leath- PATENT OFFICE. y

er-board is made in a similar way to ordinary pasteboard. When this leather pasteboard or leather-board is used for inner soles of sewed boots or shoes, and the same are worn and wet, or considerably dampened by perspiration from the feet, or by any other cause, the leather-board becomes soft and weak between the holes made by the stitchesand breaks away from the sewing, leaving the outer .sole loose or detached before the boot, or shoel is half worn. -l

When my improvementis applied to the 4 leather-board inner sole and properly securedV by the stitching-thread sewed through all the parts, the dampness or perspiration from the feet, or any considerable wetting of the boot or shoe, cannot affect the leather-board to break away the stitches or materially injure the boot or shoe, which has theleather-board inner sole thus protected and made secure.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The employment of one or more thickness of textile fabric on the inner surface of a leatli` er-board or other similar inner sole of a sewe boot or shoe, in the manner and' for the purlR pose set forth. y

- GEORGE V. WALKER. y

Witnesses:

JOHN E. CRANE, STEPHEN CUTTER. 

